The Miami Heat won their first-round series, but not without trauma. Jimmy Butler injured his shoulder, but they’ll need him to beat the Bucks four times.
Coach Spo did that in a postgame press conference after Game Four. Here is the moment where he updated us on his thoughts on Jimmy, from the Twitter account of WPLG 10‘s and Miami Heat’s, Will Manso.
Erik Spoelstra admits Jimmy Butler’s shoulder was bothering him pre-game. “His toughness will never be questioned.” Says the rest now will help. pic.twitter.com/PLIK2VQw1i
— Will Manso (@WillManso) August 25, 2020
That’s good information to have. It certainly brightens your day if you are a Miami Heat fan.
Here’s something else though. The Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks have played three times this season against each other.
In those games, the Miami Heat have won two of them and should have won the third, if not for giving up a double-digit lead in the second half. To make that even more eye-popping, neither Jimmy Butler nor Goran Dragic played in the most recent contest, again a game that the Miami Heat had a chance to and should have won.
In the first contest of the season though between the two teams, the Miami Heat’s second game of the year on October 26th and also a contest that they would play without Jimmy Butler due to the birth of his child, the Miami Heat beat the Bucks by a tally of 131-126.
In a second contest prior to the season suspension on March 2nd, one with both Jimmy Butler and Goran Dragic in the lineup, the margin was an even wider one for the Miami Heat in a win. They won that game 105-89.